Hello, we live a bit north of Tampa in Florida and have been camping for quite some time and made the same natural progression that I think everyone does. We tent camped a bit when our kids were much younger but bought a beat up old starcraft pop-up for cheap on a whim. From there we went through 2 Sunlines and a Keystone, all travel trailers. We now have an older Bounder motor home that we have fixed up a bit and put a new roof on.
We both work full time and our kids are in high school so we travel when we can. Soon we will head out for 8 days to the keys and Sanibel. Our goal is to indeed go full time with a newer coach when we both are retired but we will likely keep our house as a home base so I guess you could say a sort of full time with a safety net? Anyhow, that is still quite a few years away so in the mean time, I will continue to enjoy fixing modding and occasionally camping in our older coach.
bjoyce said
09:43 AM Jun 24, 2015
Welcome. You will get a lot of help here.
But I will take exception to "made the same natural progression that I think everyone does". We know many fulltimers who had not camped before fulltiming, or never tent camped or never had a small RV. You will learn that there are few generalities when it comes to fulltimers, everyone's story is unique. This extends into their fulltiming life, with different preferences in RVs, campsites, travel styles, social life, etc. I think it is great, but some find it off putting that not everyone is "just like them".
We had some RV experience before fulltiming, but not much. We dumped the house, it was not where we wanted to retire. In a few weeks we will have fulltimed for 12 years.
-- Edited by bjoyce on Wednesday 24th of June 2015 09:46:17 AM
OhhWell said
10:44 AM Jun 24, 2015
Ok, fair enough. I probably should have said "like many do".
bjoyce said
03:04 PM Jun 24, 2015
OhhWell: I hope you did not take any offense. Fulltiming is a great life.
BTW: We spent this last winter in Florida, from Jacksonville to the Keys, with our longest stays in North Fort Myers and Wildwood. Now we are on the Washington state coast.
-- Edited by bjoyce on Wednesday 24th of June 2015 03:06:17 PM
Hello, we live a bit north of Tampa in Florida and have been camping for quite some time and made the same natural progression that I think everyone does. We tent camped a bit when our kids were much younger but bought a beat up old starcraft pop-up for cheap on a whim. From there we went through 2 Sunlines and a Keystone, all travel trailers. We now have an older Bounder motor home that we have fixed up a bit and put a new roof on.
We both work full time and our kids are in high school so we travel when we can. Soon we will head out for 8 days to the keys and Sanibel. Our goal is to indeed go full time with a newer coach when we both are retired but we will likely keep our house as a home base so I guess you could say a sort of full time with a safety net? Anyhow, that is still quite a few years away so in the mean time, I will continue to enjoy fixing modding and occasionally camping in our older coach.
Welcome. You will get a lot of help here.
But I will take exception to "made the same natural progression that I think everyone does". We know many fulltimers who had not camped before fulltiming, or never tent camped or never had a small RV. You will learn that there are few generalities when it comes to fulltimers, everyone's story is unique. This extends into their fulltiming life, with different preferences in RVs, campsites, travel styles, social life, etc. I think it is great, but some find it off putting that not everyone is "just like them".
We had some RV experience before fulltiming, but not much. We dumped the house, it was not where we wanted to retire. In a few weeks we will have fulltimed for 12 years.
-- Edited by bjoyce on Wednesday 24th of June 2015 09:46:17 AM
OhhWell: I hope you did not take any offense. Fulltiming is a great life.
BTW: We spent this last winter in Florida, from Jacksonville to the Keys, with our longest stays in North Fort Myers and Wildwood. Now we are on the Washington state coast.
-- Edited by bjoyce on Wednesday 24th of June 2015 03:06:17 PM